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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-4.13/enacted",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-4.13/enacted.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/enacted",
  "path": "rule/4.13",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4.13",
  "heading": "Court’s power to give directions about service",
  "text": "(1) The court may specify the time as well as the date by which a document must be—\n(a) served under rule 4.3 (Service by handing over a document) or rule 4.8 (Service by person in custody); or\n(b) sent or deposited by electronic means, if it is served under rule 4.6.\n(2) The court may treat a document as served if the addressee responds to it even if it was not served in accordance with the rules in this Part.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "enacted",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 4.13 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/909/rule/4.13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:12:44.140935+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}